US Immigration from Wales

I had my interview on 13th Jan and what's frustrating is, when I filled my N400 73 years ago (slight exaggeration, I actually filed in my past life) I didn't owe any taxes, but since then I have been paying taxes via an installment plan.

They actually require you to present evidence of this as part of your citizenship, which I had no knowledge of. So I passed all the tests, just needed to give them another piece of paper showing my tax payments. The officer said that he would action the request for more information via a special form, (who's name/number I forget) and I can expect it in the mail in ten days. So seventeen days later I call up USCIS who has no record of anything being sent.

What I'm looking for is someone with knowledge of what I can expect now. It feels like I'm stuck and they could easily just lose track of me in what is, for Seattle filers, an absolute ocean of immigration backlog.

Will be moving back to the UK for a while and not having too much luck finding cheap shipping via sea.

It's kind of tricky to search because results keep coming up for general shipping (like fedex) or domestic shipping or shipping for businesses. Everything except sea freight for personal affects.

Just need a small ish part of a shipping container.

Hey guys, sorry to make a post like this! But I'm a little confused on the way Americans do their taxes and the evidence they have and I'm also a little confused with the different I-864's so wanted to double check!

So basically, my spouse is doing a masters, lives with her parents and I'm just waiting for funds to clear before submitting docs at NVC stage. So is this the right course?

Spouse - Submits form I-864 with IRS transcripts from last 3 years (even though she filed as 'abroad')?

Parents - Mother and Father both make enough money individually so first question is, do they both need to submit as sponsors? Or is it best to have both anyways?

Father - is employed and can provide IRS transcripts. Would W2's be required as well? And he would file I-864A?

Mother - is self-employed with her own business. Is IRS transcripts enough for her? And she would also file I-864A if they both sponsor?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hello,

We have received our NOA2 on 24 July 2019.

However, NVC have not yet received it, and they are currently working with USCIS to figure out where it is.

Would I need to request for an extension of the I-797, which is due to expire soon? And if so, how might I go about this? I sent an e-mail to the embassy in London, but I have also read somewhere that this may be done automatically. Should we need to worry too much, considering that they might have messed up somewhere and delayed it? We shouldn't have to be worried that our application be binned if they say that we didn't want to continue with this process, as during this time we have tried to find out what the status and progress have been.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Aaron and Claribel.

Hey guys,

I'm currently visiting my spouse whilst in America (still waiting on NOA2 FYI) and one thing we decided to try and do was open a joint bank account to help out in evidence for the process and also cause it would be useful to get my name in the system etc. right now.

I obviously checked here and saw lots of conflicting info so wanted to give my experience:

First - we visited Chase. Chase sucks when you're an intending immigrant and they will also not be very friendly to you on arrival. So don't bother.

We instead visited Bank of America and we had a whole bunch of help and a smooth ride in setting up our accounts!

All that was required was a passport and Driver's license for the US citizen (but any normal ID would be fine too including utilities and stuff. And for the non-US citizen, your passport, and a secondary form of ID, which could even be a Visa/Mastercard from your home country.

I quizzed them on why we could open it with them when we didn't have success with Chase and they said this was fine as the US citizen essentially acted as the "anchor" in our joint account and the person helping us mentioned that Visa/Mastercard is a good secondary ID as they're global so the bank can access some kind of record on you. This also allowed me to apply for a US credit Card (approval is pending so we'll see on that!).

So just wanted to share that opening a joint account in the states is possible whilst going through the process for anyone who wants to get it done!